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Haiti signed the Mine Ban Treaty on 3 December 1997, but has not yet ratified. In June 2002, the ICBL provided materials including information on the ratification process in response to a request from a Ministry of Foreign Affairs official. According to the official, the ratification procedure was on a “fast track” and ratification documents had been sent to the office of President Jean Bertrand Aristide.[1] Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bill Graham, wrote a letter of encouragement to Haiti’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Joseph Philippe Antonio, as have the ICBL, OAS, and other actors.[2]
Haiti did not attend any meetings related to the Mine Ban Treaty in 2001 or the first half of 2002, but it cosponsored and voted in favor of UN General Assembly Resolution 56/24M in November 2001, calling for universalization of the Mine Ban Treaty. Haiti has never produced, imported, stockpiled or used antipersonnel mines and is not mine-affected.[3]
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[1] Email to ICBL from Ministry of Foreign Affairs, June 2002.
[2] “Universalization News,” Newsletter of the Ottawa Convention’s Universalization Contact Group, Volume 1, Issue 3, June 2002, p. 1.
[3] Letter to ICBL Coordinator from Minister Fritz Longchamp, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, , 31 January 2000.
